Lost ark Early 2026 Content Roadmap

Join Roxx, Marketing adn Community lead on Lost Ark, Associate Franchise Lead Matt and Senior Producer henry for a first look at what’s coming too Arkesia in early 2026. Today we’ll be focusing on the major content pieces each month, but please keep in mind that we won’t dive too deeply into some of the smaller updates and adjustments. As we close out 2025, we also wanted to look back at everything we’ve accomplished together this year. It’s been an amazing journey,and we’re grateful to have shared it with such a passionate community.

Here’s a summary of the highlights. As always,we’ll share more detailed updates,specifics,and additional information in the months to come.

January

Nukman’s Illusion Stone

in January, we’ll have a new type of collectible. To give a little back story, the first elder of the Yoz, Nukman sent a crescent moon shaped stone in the night sky to give the Yoz people hope and courage. It holds the enlightenment and emotions that Nukman had experienced, but over time it shattered into pieces. Collect Nukman’s Illusion Stones for valuable rewards.

Thaemine Extreme

While very similar to the original Thaemine Hard Gate 4, Thaemine Extreme is an event raid with adjusted difficulty and patterns. Changes include resurrection at the 4-2 battle workshop, and a system where successfully landing Just guards can provide buffs for yourself and the whole team.

The raid can be entered once a week per roster, and will be around for a limited time. Thaemine Extreme offers first clear rewards and a set of weekly rewards through an Event NPC Shop.We’re looking into making some difficulty adjustments from when it released in Korea to balance for Ark Grid and other systems, and will follow up with the full suite of key information as we head toward its release.

New Ark Pass

The winners of the recent Community Emote competition will be added into the game, and January will feature the next Ark Pass, which has some pretty cool cosmetics, the Day and Night Minister skins.

February

Dragonknight Class

Lost Ark’s latest class, Dragonknight will arrive in February alongside the latest wave of progression events. The Dragonknight wields a massive Halberd as her primary weapon, but also uses hardened wings, scales, and other abilities that stem from her tragic past.

The Dragonknight has three types of skills: Normal skills using the Halberd, Manifest Skills that pull upon the energy granted to her by the Guardians, and incarnation skills, which modify the Manifest Skills to new heights when channeling the full potential of her draconic powers. While transformed, skills gain additiona

Lost Ark Updates: February & March

February

Honing Materials & Guardian Raids

• Drop quantities of accessories, bracelets, and ability stones from Guardian Raids have been increased.

• Guardian Stones, Destruction Stones, and Leapstones are no longer obtainable from Guardian Raids.

• Clearing a Chaos Gate will grant character-bound gold.Higher-level Chaos Gates grant a greater amount of character-bound gold upon completion. Chaos Gates below item level 1580 have been removed.

• The amount of Guardian Stones and Destruction Stones obtained from defeating the South Kurzan Field Boss Sevek Atun will be significantly increased.

• Defeating Sevek Atun will also grant tradeable Leapstones. the type of Leapstone obtained corresponds to the character’s Item Level bracket. Characters below Item Level 1580 will no longer obtain honing materials when defeating field bosses.

There are a ton more specifics in this category, so we’ll reiterate everything in a future team update.

March

Paradise Season 3

In March, we’ll launch the third season of Paradise. we’re really happy with how the system has turned out,with the different types of gameplay loops it provides,along with the accelerated progression for all characters. We worked with Smilegate to implement feedback from Season 1 into season 2, from how upgrading gear worked, to some of the gameplay patterns coming from the gear upgrades, along with changing the early drop rates for gear. You’ve already experienced some of the changes, but with the season still progressing there should be some more captivating gameplay at the end with the 5 additional Crucible levels.

We’ll continue to be on the lookout for feedback throughout Season 2, and are excited for the continuation of the system in Season 3.

Next Story Chapter

The story marking the end of Chapter 1 of Lost Ark in what has been a multi-year battle against Kazeros and his forces.